Topic: french quarter

Mandeville LA - I have never understood just why “tourism” is labeled as an “industry” and why this “industry" gets cut in for so many outrageous subsidies? If those subsidies were even offered to say, an oil production firm, which IS an industry, the peasants would revolt and overthrow the government. Take the recent news that the “tourism industry” in New Orleans is set to receive a monthly, $200,000 subsidy for “quality of life enhancements”. These are ne….Continue

"Whatever capital you divert to the support of a shiftless and good-for-nothing person is so much diverted from some other employment, and that means from somebody else. I would spend any conceivable amount of zeal and eloquence if I possessed it to try to make people grasp this idea. Capital is force. If it goes one way it cannot go another. If you give a loaf to a pauper you cannot give the same loaf to a laborer. Now this other man who would have got it but for the charitable sentiment which bestowed it on a worthless member of society is the Forgotten Man." - William Graham Sumner, The Forgotten Man